The Central Rating List (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2016

Statutory Instruments

2016 No. 714

Rating And Valuation, England

The Central Rating List (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2016

Made

6th July 2016

Laid before Parliament

8th July 2016

Coming into force

31st July 2016

The Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 53(1) and (2) and 143(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988(1) makes the following Regulations.

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Central Rating List (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2016.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 31st July 2016.

Amendment of the Central Rating List (England) Regulations 2005

2.—(1) The Central Rating List (England) Regulations 2005(2) are amended as follows.

(2) In Part 4 of the Schedule (national and regional gas transportation hereditaments), in the column headed “Designated person”, in relation to the hereditament described in regulation 9(2), below the entry relating to “Blackwater G Limited” insert “The company bearing the name National Grid Gas Distribution Limited on 5th May 2016”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Marcus Jones

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Communities and Local Government

6th July 2016

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Central Rating List (England) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/551) (“the Central Rating List Regulations”).

The Central Rating List Regulations designate persons and prescribe in relation to those persons descriptions of non-domestic hereditament, under section 53(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41), with a view to securing the central rating en bloc of those hereditaments.

The Schedule to the Central Rating List Regulations (“the Schedule”) lists all designated persons and sets out the description of hereditament prescribed in relation to each of them.

Regulation 2 of these Regulations makes an amendment to Part 4 of the Schedule that deals with national and regional gas transportation hereditaments. The amendment names National Grid Gas Distribution Limited as a designated person in relation to the hereditament described in regulation 9(2) of the Central Rating List Regulations.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument because it amends an existing local tax regime. Publication of a full impact assessment is not necessary for such legislation.

(1)

1988 c. 41. Section 53 was amended by paragraph 29 of Schedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42) and Part 1 of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26). These powers are now vested in the Welsh Ministers so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales. They were previously transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672): see the reference to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 in Schedule 1. By virtue of paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), they were transferred to the Welsh Ministers.

(2)

S.I. 2005/551; relevant amendments were made by S.I. 2010/2692, 2013/408 and 2013/2887. There are other amending instruments but none is relevant.